Re: rcNG changes/aditions

From: Doug Barton (dougb_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 03/15/05

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    Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:21:06 -0800
    To: Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es>
    
    

    Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
    > El Martes, 15 de Marzo de 2005 02:43, Doug Barton escribió:
    >
    >>Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
    >>
    >>>Hi,
    >>>I'll glad to know if this is of interest:
    >>>
    >>>update to PR conf/75137 (sound modules): I rework this adding
    >>>support for preloaded modules to /etc/rc.subr
    >>
    >>Why is this necessary? My understanding is that modules load
    >>themselves when called. Do the sound modules do this differently?
    >>
    >
    >
    > This is not needed (I think). You can load modules
    > via /boot/loader.conf, but may be more confortable if we 'go modules'
    > in a future.

    I don't think you understand what I'm saying. For most modules, it is not
    actually necessary to pre-load them at all. For example, I have cd9660 as a
    module, it's not compiled into my kernel. When I mount a cd9660 file system
    the kernel module is automatically loaded. There is no need to pre-load it.
    The same is true of (most) modules that create devices, such as ndis.

    I don't know the specifics of the sound module, I compile it into my kernel.
    However, as you pointed out in the rare case that it's necessary to actually
    pre-load a kernel module (such as agp), we have a mechanism for that in
    loader.conf already. I don't think that adding that code to rc.subr is a
    useful exercise, and in fact I would oppose it as needless duplication of
    effort.

    >>>update to PR conf/74006 (named minor fixes): Fix a typo and umount
    >>>dev in chroot in post_stop works
    >>
    >>Please submit this as followup to the PR.
    >>
    >
    >
    > Will do.

    Thanks.

    Doug

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